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May parley with oblivion awhile - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XII" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

From the waste of dark oblivion - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

On the fluttering edge of oblivion - Mary Jo Bang "The Trip"

Gone to seed oblivion's oath - Dan Beachy-Quick "Variations on Dawn and Dusk"

The wind won't hide its oblivion arrow - Lillian-Yvonne Bertram "Black Pastoral"

Oblivion is all we have - William Brewer "Oxyana, West Virginia"

Balm of soft oblivion - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 11"

And sour in oblivion - Lucie Brock-Broido "Almost a Conjuror"

Oblivion beyond memory - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnet XV in Sonnets from the Portuguese"

Oblivion of my bitterness - Gerald Bullett "Rest"

Sinks beneath Oblivion's wave - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "On the Long Island Indian"

Let oblivion's curtain fall - Thomas Campbell "The Last Man"

At the gate of dark oblivion's lands - Giosue Carducci "Passa la nave mia, sola, tra il pianto" transl. by Frank Sewall

With memory and oblivion side by side - Bliss Carman "The Crimson House"

My cool fingers of oblivion - Adelaide Crapsey "John Keats"

Crowd gaily upon oblivion - E.E. Cummings "Puella Mea"

A comfortable state of oblivion - Jim Daniels "Feed Corn"

In black Oblivion's waves should whelm his name - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Power in deep oblivion overthrown - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

From the remote borders of the land of oblivion - Julián del Casal "Vas Doloris" transl. by William George Williams

O'er the billowy waste of dim oblivion's flood - Delta "A Reminiscence of Boyhood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]

Retire to that soup-bowl of oblivion - Timothy Donnelly "To His Own Device"

Oblivion took the heart and eye - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel III: The Castle"

Courting oblivion of the heart - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"

Comes upon a bleak oblivion - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

Oblivion has your shadow - Lauri Garcia Duenas "O" (translated by Olivia Lott)

Rubbed off by oblivion's thumb - Martin Espada "Vivas to Those Who Have Failed: The Paterson Silk Strike, 1913: I. The Red Flag"

From the wave of dark oblivion - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"

Crumbles to its complete oblivion - Eleanor Farjeon "Pan-Worship"

And my dead heart would bless oblivion - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Oblivion"

Were oblivion not sadder yet - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Rain Fugue"

The twin streams of oblivion - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 11"

Into oblivion going nowhere - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen J"

That recklessly weaned us from oblivion - Linda Gregerson "My Father Comes Back from the Grave"

From which came the smell of oblivion - Louise Gluck "The Sword in the Stone"

Tyrants will grant oblivion never - E.W.H. "Dream-Fancies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.141-v.III, 11 Sept. 1886]

To an incomplete oblivion - Hazel Hall "Flash"

Yields the magic of oblivion and ecstasies - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XII"

And thick oblivion gathering round his head - Reginald Heber "The Whippiad: A Satirical Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]

Our electrons speed inside oblivion - Brenda Hillman "Lines for the 19th Amendment Centennial"

Our story sails along inside oblivion - Brenda Hillman "Lines for the 19th Amendment Centennial"

Matching the oblivion within - Edward Hirsch "The Unnaming"

The bosom of this deep, dark pool of oblivion - Frank Horne "Letters Found Near a Suicide" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Ascends and bids oblivion fly - George Moses Horton "Memory"

To dark oblivion's goal - "Hours of Childhood"

But tunnels on through ages of oblivion - Aldous Huxley "Mole"

On through ages of oblivion - Aldous Huxley "Mole"

In dark oblivion their renown expires - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]

In myriads from oblivion's ward - Juan Ramon Jimenez "One Night" transl. by Thomas Walsh

A mauve vine corkscrewed up from the deep oblivion - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

All the sad spaces of oblivion - John Keats "Hyperion"

With long Oblivion is gone dry - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

In oblivion deferred - John Koethe "The Sin of Pride"

The heart from out of oblivion - D.H. Lawrence "Evolutions of Soldiers"

Protected by official oblivion - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria E. Dweller of Heaven"

Oblivion, from streams of Lethe borne - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."

Remembrance and Oblivion - Jeannette Marks "Two Candles"

Were hung up in oblivions cabinet - Harry Martinson "Aniara 44" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Undress its cool oblivion - Anne Haven McDonnell "Owl"

Blood cells glinting into oblivion - Arianna Monet "I'm rewatching the She-Ra episode where Glimmer gets sick for the first time"

And sent you to oblivion - Carlos Montezuma "I Have Stood Up for You"

Oblivion hides the rest - James Montgomery "The Common Lot"

Surrounded by laughter with bottles of oblivion - Pablo Neruda "The Book of Questions: XXXIX" transl. by William O'Daly

Faraway glass of water and oblivion - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Hang scraps of oblivion - Pablo Neruda "The Disinterred One" translated by Donald D. Walsh

For we acquire oblivion - Pablo Neruda "Men XI" transl. by William O'Daly

The long passage through oblivion - Pablo Neruda "Phantom" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Your cold sense of oblivion - Pablo Neruda "Tyranny" Translated by Donald D. Walsh

The maw of oblivion consumes all - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"

Had stirred oblivion's darkest springs - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "A Forest Scene"

Wrestled with oblivion all night - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard I: The Rock of the Good Virgin"

In the necessary oblivion of the circumstances - Achy Obejas "Volver"

The deep snow of oblivion - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

Ripples the way oblivion does - Carl Phillips "Something to Believe In"

Beauty that attends oblivion - Carl Phillips "Tell Me a Story"

In deep oblivion's shade - Ann Plato "Forget Me Not"

Oblivion's quilt - Emilio Porta

Cast in oblivion's sunless well - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"

Open windows that lead to oblivion - M. Regan "The Hollow"

Pay bright homage to oblivion - Lola Ridge [Firehead untitled prologue]

And whirl into a tranced oblivion - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

With dust of long oblivions - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

a part of them dwindling into oblivion - Abu Bakr Sadiq "POST MASSACRE PSYCHE EVALUATION"

The frozen and adamantine bars of oblivion fall - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

A bridge redshifts toward oblivion - Ann K. Schwader "Spiral Scream"

Beauty as an agent to oblivion - Bruce Smith "Ferment"

A slow ship moving across its own oblivion - Leonora Speyer "The Heart Recalcitrant"

The warm, white oblivion of sleep - A.E. Stallings "Two Nursery Rhymes: Lullaby and Rebuttal"

Nor altars builded to Oblivion - George Sterling "At the Grand Canyon"

Grey as with oblivion - George Sterling "Duandon"

In question at oblivion's brink - George Sterling "Norman Boyer"

That sleep in the barrows of oblivion - George Sterling "The Pathfinders"

That should foil oblivion - George Sterling "To Ambrose Bierce"

Time's purple deepens to oblivion - George Sterling "To the Moon"

When Time and strong Oblivion ask - Algernon Swinburne "A Dialogue"

Won an instant from oblivion - Arthur Symons "Stella Maris"

A brief oblivion for his angry mind - U.T. "The College.--A Sketch in Verse" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]

The drums of time beating against oblivion - Iris Tree "[How soundly sleepeth the fool]"

In the cerulean depths of slow oblivion - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"

Steep my senses in oblivion's balm - Thomas Warton Jr. "Ode to Sleep"

Bright forts against Oblivion - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

The abstract oblivion of atoms - Christian Wiman "One Time 2: 2047 Grace Street"

Stemming oblivion's torrent - Miss J. Woodman "Stanzas Suggested by Gliddon's Lectures on the Antiquities of Egypt" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]

Cut out by water into oblivion - Charles Wright "No Entry"
Oblivion of the Present, Future, Past - Farnsworth Wright writing as Francis Hard "After Two Nights of the Ear-ache" [Weird Tales, Oct. 1937]

Where is my oblivion? - Jenny Xie "No Animal"

Because of its proximity to oblivion - Dean Young "Hammer"

Having so recently come from oblivion itself - Dean Young "Hammer"

In a profound installation of oblivion - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 20" transl. by Katherine Silver


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